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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 Oct 1928, p. 57

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·' Kenil,oorth News Ask fot Warm Clothing for Great Lakes Vets Mrs. Joseph Joyce, Mrs. James Prentiss, and .Mrs. Frank Nason. of Kenilworth, visited Great Lakes Monday af~ernoon and found among the ex-servtce men a great need for overcoats and suits, sizes 38-40, and foi heavy underwear. Anyone having such contributions for the war sufferers is asked to communicate with Mrs. Prentiss, Kenilworth 127 or Mrs . .Nason, Kenilworth 4363. ' 'Mr. and Mrs. Bruce V. Crandall and family, 515 Warwick road, Kenilworth are leaving very soon for California where they expect to spend the winter. Willard Crandall is a junior at Leland Standford university. --o- Wilmette Merit Badge . couns~lers for Boy Scout troops will · :hold · a Warning has been issued to auto- conference in St. Augustine's Club mobile drivers to .drive slowly past the House Thursday evening, November 1, at 8 o'clock. ~~hlic school building3 of the village. Stgns marked, "School-Fifteen Miles an Hour," have been placed in the GUIDE LECTURE TOURS center of. t!}C streets surrounding the "Man at the Dawn of History" and school bmldmgs . .Police Chief Charles "The Moon and Meteorites" at 11 and W . .Leggett announced this week that 3 o'clock, respectively, Monday, Octo~he ruling wilt be strictly enforced. ber 29, are the subjects of the first of Thu·3 far we have been fortunate in next week's guide-lecture tours at having no accidents to children " the Field Museum of Natural History. ' ac- Other days subjects are: Tuesday, . f sat'd , " and we '";~nt no such chte cidents." "Palms and Their Uses" and "Marine Police Warii Motorists of School Speed Zone SCOUT COUNSELER$ MEET .Animals~'; ·. We~nesday, · ."Am~_rican l]tdian Dwelling~" . ~nd "Chicago ~irds and Animals"; ·Thursday, two g·e neral tours, and Frida.y, "The Eskimo" ·a nd . '"African Game : Animals." These ·.tour-s conducted by . the museum staff are · free. Parties assemble inside north entran·ce. . JRB .DAL ·B XOTB BXTBRmW ATIOB lJDIYertlt)" tiM STORAGE Again!! America's Speed Trophy goes to the k Ia worthy of aote that the South Shore Liae opendn8 to South Bend wu rated .econd, and The OlicaKO Aurora & Elpn Railroad ·· the third fateet line. AU eerve Cbica1o and the Metropolitan Area. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Pease 320 Leicester road, Kenilworth entert~ined their bridge club Wednesday evening at dinner. Mr. Pease had been duck shooting so they served their guests a duck dinner. -oM iss Isabel Cline, 304 Cumnor road, Kenilworth, who has been in New York for the past ten days on account of the death ·of L. E. Torrence, returned to Kenilworth on \Vedn ?~day. -aMrs. ]. H. Newport, 520 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth, entertained at luncheon a~d two tables of brjdge at the Georgtan hotel in Evanston on Tuesday. -0- Sidney Ball, Hill road, Winnetka has been east for ten days. He made a husine3s trip to New York and Boston and visited his son, Webster, at Princeton. --oM rs. Sidney Ball of Hill road, Winnetka entertained twelve women at a week-end party Saturday and Sundav while their husbands were golfing a·t La~e Geneva. -0- ~~ ··, -·~ ~ 'i ~. ~~+: ·~A~t 1',"1. ...~~ Little Nancy Ellen McCloud, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bentley McCloud 338 Kenilworth avenue, Kenilworth underwent a tonsil ope;ation at the Evanston hospital Wednesday. --oMrs. George Richards, Essex road, Kenilworth is entertaining several guesf3 this evening at dinner before the dance at the Kenilworth club. --oM iss Phebe Hedrick, 304 Melrose avenue, Kenilworth has been pledged Kappa Alpha Zeta, a local sorority at the Art institute, Chicago. ~~XXXXXXXJJJXXXJXJJJJXXJJY, ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Offering -several fin~ tracts of land in the estate section and ranging in size from 5 to Boo acres each. Priced from $375 to $1200 per acre. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ = ~ ~ For the second consecutive year the North Shore Line retains official recog.. nition as the fastest electrically.. operated interurban railroad in North America1 The Speed Trophy shown above was again awarded to the North Shore Lipe at the 47th Annual Convention of the American Electric Railway Association on September 27th, in Cleveland, Ohio. Speed With Safety! Official records of the North Shore Line show that its average speed for the year, between the Chicago Lvop and the heart of Milwaukee, exclusive of stops was 53.9 miles per hour, and 41.8 miles ·per L. w. SCHNITZER = ~ ACREAGE-COUNTRY HOMESFARMS ~ ~ ~ ~ hour including 14 regular schedule stops. Such famous aU·steel limited trains as the Badger, the Northland, the Eastern, the Cream City, the Milwaukee, and the Prairie State, figured compositely in the winning of this exceptional honor. · The North Shore Line prides itself par· ticularly on the fact that at no time in the establishing of this record has safety and comfort of passengers been subor· dinate:l to speed. "Speed with Safety" is the .railroad's motto and always will be. ~ ~ Chicago NClrth Shore & Milwaukee Railroad Co. The Road of Service Wilmette Pusea1er Statioa-Phoae Wilmette ZS14 Box 174, Glen View! Ill. Phone Northbrook 116-J

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